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Helen_A

Joined: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 1548
Location: MK, Bucks.

Posted: Wed May 10, 06 2:39 pm Post subject: How to find a fencer

Well - our garden fence is threatening a collapse, and we want to extend it to bring in the bit to the side anyway - so wel need to find a decent fencer who will do close boarded fence to match what is there.

There are several people in the phone book - and so far the 8 we have called for quotes either don't do our sort of fence, or have failed to turn up to quote. We had found someone, but they went bust last year and we can't track the chap down (his old neighbour thinks that they have gone to New Zealand!!).

Does anyone happen to know a decent firm within, say, 10-15-20 miles of Battle; that they would recommend? Failing that - a firm that would sell us the bits to do it ourselves? (although tbh I can't see DP managing that, and we're out of favours to call in)

Sigh.

Helen_A

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45695
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed May 10, 06 2:44 pm Post subject:
Keep trying. I spoke to 10s of firms before I found the one I selected (they started today) the prices varied from �9.98-�35.00 p.m. I went for the cheapest, mainly because he was cheapest but also because he turned up when he said he would, knew what he was talking about and didn't levae "room to haggle". BTW this guy's from NZ

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed May 10, 06 3:00 pm Post subject:

As Tahir says, keep looking. Ask everyone around you. Many fencers also do hedging, so they will have been busy doing the latter until very recently.
Our fencers finished work yesterday and it looks great - but we bought the posts/rails/gates about 18 months ago, originally with the intention of doing it ourselves (half a dozen wobbly posts later, we saw sense!). When we finally found the chaps who did the work, we still had to wait several months before we rose to the top of the pile.
Good luck.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18415

Posted: Wed May 10, 06 3:35 pm Post subject:

Fencers tend to be of two varieties : domestic fencers (garden and house stuff), and agricultural fencers.
Domestic will charge more, give you the sales patter; agricultural probably won't think it worth their while to do domestic jobs : they are the guys who put up miles of fencing for a client, and go for days without speaking to anyone.
Best bet is a retired agricultural fencer who wants to supplement income, or someone who does domestic fences for a firm that builds houses and wants a bit of overtime. Or someone just starting up in business for themself, who'll take any kind of job. At this time of year, they'll be all working flat out with the daylight hours.

Welshcake

Joined: 14 May 2006
Posts: 5

Posted: Fri May 26, 06 9:13 pm Post subject:

Try your local feed merchant - that's how I found our fencers to stock fence one of our fields. I bought the materials and they did the job for about �1.30 a metre in about a day and a half. Our feed merchant is a tight bugger, so I knew that if he'd used them for a job, they'd be worth using.
Quotes for fencing can vary hugely - and, of course, it depends what you want and how quick you want it.
Good luck!

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